The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-02


4 New and Interesting Feature Adopt
ed fer IAe BeneAs OF Our Readers.
The NEWS, ever alive to the demands
of its large and rapidly increasing
number of readers, has secured for its
pages feature of most thrilling inter-
est, not only to soldiers and their fami-
lies, but also all who love to commem-
crate the achievements and the vaIor
Of our arms. We are now passing
through the period which may be
termed the quarter-centennial of the
great battles and campaigns of the
civil war.
The Quarter-Centennial of all the
engagements and campaigns of ''the
battle year of 1882" will occur during
this year 1887. The interest in the
great events of the most tragic period
of our history will be heightened by
the twenty-fifth anniversary of each
great episode. On this occasion there
will be interesting reunions of the sur
vivors of the battles upon the ground
where they fought, and there will be
memorial services and celebrations of
Importance.
No previous conflict ever possessed
such interest to people as the great
civil war in America to the people of
this country. This is not alone be-
cause of the magnitude of the forces
engaged and the losses sustained, both
unprecedented in any equal period in
modern history, but because it was a
Il - ~, al, hi
against brother, because it was turn
| ing point in our history making new,
and all trust, better republic, and be-
cause it would be difficult to find one
among us, born in America, who has
not deep personal interest through ties
of blood in some who fought or died in
the bloody years from 1861 to 1865. The
war was all our own. Its victories and
defeats, its triumph and blunders, its
glory and shame were all our own. We
may safely assume that the interest in
the war period, which has grown so
rapidly in the last two or three years,
will suffer no diminution for a long
time to come.
We have secured, through the Amer
lean Press association, for the daily and
weekly issues of the NEWS, a full page
illustrated article, written in narrative
style by the best and most accurate
writer's on war topics, of each import
ant battle and campaign of the civil
war, on about the twenty-ifth ami
versary of each of these great military
events.
We began this series in the. NEWS
of Saturday, February II, and in the
current weekly, with the description of
the fall of Fort Donelson, and was
followed by description OF
the Battle of Pea Ridge, and
an illustrated account of the en-
gagement between the Merrimac and
Monitor, fought March 9, 1862. This
will be followed by subsequent pages
of similar character in the following
order, on the twenty-fifth anniversary
of each.
Battle of Shiloh, April and Z, 1852
The Peninsula Campaign, including
Cold Harbor, June q, 1852.
Stonewall Jackson's Campaign
against Banks, Milroy and Fremont.
The Seven Days Before Richmond
June 26, to July 1, 1862.
| Pope's Campaign, including Cedar
Mountain, Gainesville, Manassas (o1
Second Bull RUM and Chantilly.
South Mountain and Antietam.
The Invasion of Kentucky, by Bragg
and Kirby Smith, including Richmond
and Perryvale.
Corinth, October and 4, 1852.
Stone River.
These sketches will be followed next
year by the stories of the battles OF
1858.
This series will be a great special
feature of the daily and weekly News
and, we doubt not, will augment its
circulation to great extent.
Subscribe at once, as the next thrill
ing page will be published in few
days.